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DV 2020 All Selectees

yummmmyy said:
Hello I’m DV2021 selectee (^^)/
My year is just like nightmare and got even worse than 2020....
I'm thinking of taking Morrison's lawsuit however I'm not yet convinced for a few things.
Was there actually the fact that the DV2020 plaintiff got prioritized over the others whose name wasn't on the list?
Are there DV2020 plaintiffs here? or has anyone heard about it from them?
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If you have the money for the lawsuit then I would advise you take the option

I'm not following the DV2021 lawsuits so I don't know how far they are or how likely they'll win

All in all plaintiffs in DV2020 were interviewed even those who were not current so weigh your options and make a quick decision

If this lifetime opportunity is worth the extra investment to you and you can afford it then join the lawsuit
 
FRAN 2020AF30XXX said:
If you have the money for the lawsuit then I would advise you take the option

I'm not following the DV2021 lawsuits so I don't know how far they are or how likely they'll win

All in all plaintiffs in DV2020 were interviewed even those who were not current so weigh your options and make a quick decision

If this lifetime opportunity is worth the extra investment to you and you can afford it then join the lawsuit
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I appreciate your advice, you are right I have to make my dicision quick and on my own.
The situation is different this year so results could not be the same as last year but still, your data is very valuable enough to help me.
 
yummmmyy said:
I appreciate your advice, you are right I have to make my dicision quick and on my own.
The situation is different this year so results could not be the same as last year but still, your data is very valuable enough to help me.
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That's right decision imo. I know 1 person from this forum participated in Morrison's lawsuit and got into interview! I think he is in USA now. He has really high case number.
 
Borost said:
That's right decision imo. I know 1 person from this forum participated in Morrison's lawsuit and got into interview! I think he is in USA now. He has really high case number.
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I might have seen that person on Morison's YouTube coment anyway it seems dozens of people got benefit from the lawsuit last year.
If I don't get 2NL by the end of next week I will join it.
 
ZAsaf said:
Hi
Anyone know what is the schedule of the DV2020 decision? Has anything progressed with the court?
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The last development on DV2020 was February 24th 2021 which was the proclamation revoking PP10014 which allowed most DV2020 visa holders to travel to the US.

So far the status on the 9095 preserved visas is that we still await Judge Mehtas direction on how or if they will be processed. For now we just have to be patient and wait for any possibilities. We can't speculate anything for now.
 
hello, what happened to those 9095 visas which were reserved on September 30th? have they been issued or are they still under the Gomez lawsuit?
 
FRAN 2020AF30XXX said:
All in all plaintiffs in DV2020 were interviewed even those who were not current so weigh your options and make a quick decision
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Are you sure?

On his webpage he wrote: "We have helped over 350 2020 DV winners obtain visas and have pending cases for over 1,150 others. "

He said he had helped 350 applicants, but in Kennedy vs Trump lawsuit alone, he had over 1000 plaintiffs
 
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lasha said:
Are you sure?

On his webpage he wrote: "We have helped over 350 2020 DV winners obtain visas and have pending cases for over 1,150 others. "

He said he had helped 350 applicants, but in Kennedy vs Trump lawsuit alone, he had over 1000 plaintiffs
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Who are you quoting?
 
Britsimon said:
The Kennedy lawsuit was filed on September 18, which was obviously too late to get an immediate benefit for the participants. The intention was to get more named plaintiffs in as a priority should visas be preserved. So no - not all the Kennedy plaintiffs were interviewed.
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Yes you're right @Britsimon about that

In my response a few days back I was referring to plaintiffs in the Curtis cases of Dr Mohammed and Fonjong who were part of the Gomez case. Nearly all of them attended their interviews after the September 4th 2020 judgment by Mehta to have DV2020 interviews to be treated as a priority by all embassies
 
Britsimon said:
The Kennedy lawsuit was filed on September 18, which was obviously too late to get an immediate benefit for the participants. The intention was to get more named plaintiffs in as a priority should visas be preserved. So no - not all the Kennedy plaintiffs were interviewed.
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yes, you are right, but I think the main problem here was not the date, but the intention to reserve a visa. I don’t mean to sound disrespectful to him and about great job that he and another attorneys did, but he lost this lawsuit.
 
lasha said:
yes, you are right, but I think the main problem here was not the date, but the intention to reserve a visa. I don’t mean to sound disrespectful to him and about great job that he and another attorneys did, but he lost this lawsuit.
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Lost what lawsuit?
 
Britsimon said:
Lost what lawsuit?
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I put it wrong, I meant to schedule an interview after September 23rd or in 2021 year at least. It's been 8 months now and everything is still same, I hope they get their visas, but be honest i really don't believe it. Anyway it's doesn't mean that he lost this lawsuit and I hope he wins, because, in addition to the happiness of these people, this will be a good precedent for us (DV 2021 winners) too.
 
lasha said:
I put it wrong, I meant to schedule an interview after September 23rd or in 2021 year at least. It's been 8 months now and everything is still same, I hope they get their visas, but be honest i really don't believe it. Anyway it's doesn't mean that he lost this lawsuit and I hope he wins, because, in addition to the happiness of these people, this will be a good precedent for us (DV 2021 winners) too.
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1. The Gomez cases (including Aker, Mohammed and Fongjong) caused about 7k visas to be issued from September 4 to the 30th.
2. It stopped the government applying the no visa policy on DV2020 cases and then on the regional bans for DV2020.
3. We also got 9095 visas preserved for the possibility of issuing later, and the establishment of a class that covered every non issued DV2020 case.
4. Then the same case caused an order to force the government to accept expired visas that were issued in September.
5. PP10014 was revoked largely because of legal action.
6. The regional bans were removed for DV and other immigrant cases, again, most likely because of legal pressure.
7. Various discovery documents from the DV cases have been helpful in other cases too.

The legal action has been tremendously successful so far, and that has all been achieved by the AILA team, the Kuck/Siskind/Joseph teams, and the Morrison/Urena team. Time will tell if they can win some more visas, but has already been more than worth it.
 
@Britsimon

Yes, Judge Mehta's decision on September 4th was a really very big surprise. To your list we may add some selectees whose appointments were canceled due to the corona virus in March, April and May 2020 and they also benefited from this decision. But revoke and ban remove of P.P. 10141/10052/9645/9983 I think this is more the result of President Biden's election policy in relation to migration politics, which was one of the discussed issues during the election campaign, than the merit of legal pressure
 
lasha said:
@Britsimon

Yes, Judge Mehta's decision on September 4th was a really very big surprise. To your list we may add some selectees whose appointments were canceled due to the corona virus in March, April and May 2020 and they also benefited from this decision. But revoke and ban remove of P.P. 10141/10052/9645/9983 I think this is more the result of President Biden's election policy in relation to migration politics, which was one of the discussed issues during the election campaign, than the merit of legal pressure
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I don't think you were following the process too closely.
 
Britsimon said:
I don't think you were following the process too closely.
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yes, maybe

By the way, what are your expectations, we will finally receive decision on this matter in July this year? Right now I was watching Morrison's video stream with a man from Egypt where he said “we continue to lobby congress to save dv2020 selectees”, how do you think congress could put some kind of "pressure” on this decision?

also about 2021 he said: during reprioritization of visa issuances state department (During President Trumps period) put DVs at the bottom, so it unlawful and that's why we gonna go to court and win. How do you think this strategy would work?
 
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